Using Social Networking Sites for Teaching and Learning: Students’ Achievement and Involvement in Facebook® as a Course Management System

• In Event: DDL - Communication & Social Networking

Short Description

The social activities or social interactions that occur between students, their peers and instructors in Social Networking Sites (SNSs) cloud play an important role in the learning process. This study examined whether SNSs have a place in teaching and learning. It studies how students use SNS, Facebook in a face-to-face course as a Course Management System and whether students’ involvement to course SNS and students’ achievement have any relationships among themselves or not.

Authors

• Duygu Albayrak, Bilkent University

• Zahide Yıldırım, Middle East Technical University